1. News in The LDP world

Local links

Several people already pointed out that our docs page has absolute pointers back to iBiblio, whether you use the
main site or a mirror. Because the mirrors do have the complete collection, having absolute links is rather pointless. The issue is now being dealt with and local links will be made available
soon.

The LDP history

Greg Ferguson put up an article TLDP history that was published earlier in LinuxJournal. Some feedback, however,
still needs to be incorporated to make it accurately reflect what happened during the last 10 years.

Unmaintained Documents

Guido Gonzato sent in a mail indicating that he doesn't have the time to maintain the Configuration HOWTO, From DOS/Windows to Linux HOWTO, From VMS to Linux HOWTO and the
Saving Space mini-HOWTO. If you would like to maintain any of these documents, send a mail to the <discuss@en.tldp.org> list.
Thank you Guido for writing and maintaining these documents so far.

2. New documents @ The LDP

Trevor Harmon finalized the TimeSys Linux Install mini-HOWTO, which is a quick-start guide
for installing TimeSys Linux on a typical desktop workstation. In the words of the author "TimeSys Linux is a derivative of Linux created by TimeSys Corporation. It includes a
fully preemptible kernel, a constant-time scheduler, fully schedulable interrupt handlers, fully schedulable soft-IRQs, and reduced interrupt disable times. These features reduce latency to a point
where TimeSys Linux can be used as a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS).".

3. Documents submitted for review

Nicolas Dufour prepares submission of the Linux
Aviation HOWTO, listing useful software for private, commercial and military pilots, airlines, airports and anything having to do with aeronautics.

4. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides

David Ranch updated the Linux IP Masquerade HOWTO. It has now more comments in the example rulesets.
Apart from that lots of polishing has been done to streamline this HOWTO. The the rc.firewall-iptables-stronger ruleset was updated to fix a typo.

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